Concrete plan: building the Barbican in the 1970s – in pictures

Concrete plan: building the Barbican in the 1970s – in pictures

An urban utopia of concert halls, fountains and art galleries at the heart of a housing estate in London? Peter Bloomfield reveals his cache of photographs charting the construction of a British brutalist icon

Monday 22 February 2016 02.00 EST

Two workmen in front of the facade (November 1979)

The Barbican Centre was designed in the brutalist style by architects Chamberlin, Powell & Bon amid the equally brutalist Barbican Estate. • Building the Brutal will be published by the Barbican later in 2016.
View the archive hereAll photographs: Peter Bloomfield